Scientific Advisory Council
A Scientific Advisory Council, consisting of representatives from the worlds of academia and business, actively accompanies and evaluates the ZEW’s work.
- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Buttler, former Secretary of State, Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture Brandenburg; former Regional Director of Europe and Central Asia, International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva
- Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Arnold Picot, Head of the Institute for Information, Organization, and Management, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
- Prof. David Bruce Audretsch, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, Director of Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Prof. Dr. Uschi Backes-Gellner, Institute for Strategy and Business Economics (ISU), University of Zurich
- Dr. Kurt Bock, CFO, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Engel, Director, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
- Prof. Dr. Michael Heise, Head of Allianz Group Economic Research, Dresdner Bank AG, Frankfurt a.M.
- Prof. Dr. Dieter Hundt, President of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations, Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Gebhard Kirchgässner, Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW), University of St. Gallen
- Prof. Dr. Kai A. Konrad, Director, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich
- Prof. Dr. Franz Luzius, CEO, IHK Rhein-Neckar, Mannheim
- Prof. Pierre A. Mohnen, Ph.D., UNU-MERIT, University of Maastricht
- Prof. Dr. Hermann Remsperger, former Member of Board, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a.M.
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Sadowski, Director, Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Community, Trier
- Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Bertram Schefold, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
- Prof. Dr. Bernd Schips, former Head of the KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETU Zurich
- Prof. Dr. Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Prof. Dr. Dietmar Wellisch, Head of the International Tax Institute, University of Hamburg
- Prof. Dr. Heinz Welsch, Institute for Economics and Statistics, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg